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Energy analysts worry the growing U.S. liquefied natural gas market may face headwinds after China responded to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration with its own levies.

Earlier this month, China instituted tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. products that included a 10 percent surcharge on LNG exports. The announcement came after the Trump administration slapped tariffs on $200 billion on Chinese goods.

In an email, the company did not directly address the implications of the tariffs on the company. “We hope the (Trump) administration will reach a compromise on LNG tariffs with China and allow both countries to share the benefits of this important resource,” Sempra spokeswoman PatyOrtega Mitchell said.

China’s appetite for natural gas is expected to grow as more homes in that country switch from coal to natural gas.

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Hong said flow from U.S. facilities already exporting cargoes of LNG won’t be affected much but companies may re-think some projects that had been on the verge of being wrapped up.

“I don’t know if it will impact these projects coming live, but I think it definitely pushes out the go-live dates, or when these projects are actually commercially viable,” Hong said.

In the LNG business, when a project that has been approved it reaches FID status — “final investment decision.”

Sempra has plans for a proposed facility on the Gulf Coast near Port Arthur, Texas, that is just shy of FID. Earlier this month, the company obtained a crucial notice from the federal government for the project.

It’s not known if Sempra is in any negotiations with potential LNG customers in China.

Sempra already has an LNG facility under construction — a project in Hackberry, Louisiana, called Cameron. It is expected to begin operations next year.

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Sempra has partnered with companies in France and Japan to construct the $10 billion facility.

The imposition of Chinese tariffs offers an interesting wrinkle when it comes to another facility.

Sempra’s subsidiary in Mexico, IEnova, operates an LNG import facility near Ensenada. The company is considering adding an export component to the site.

An export facility in Baja, California, would offer a competitive advantage because cargoes could theoretically be shipped directly to markets in Asia without going through the Panama Canal — a route LNG facilities on the Gulf Coast and the East Coast must use.

Since the facility would be based in Mexico instead of the U.S., perhaps exports to China could avoid paying the 10 percent tariff.

In Sempra’s case, Morris said, “If you have a project in the U.S. and in Mexico, you have some optionality and flexibility.”

The U.S. has only recently become a global player in the LNG export market, challenging countries such as Australia, Qatar and Russia.

The “shale revolution” in oil and gas formation in places such as Texas and Pennsylvania has greatly increased domestic supplies of natural gas and companies have been racing to build projects to ship LNG to foreign markets.

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Just two LNG export facilities in the U.S. are up and running — one on the Gulf Coast owned by Cheniere Energy and another on the coast of Maryland called Cove Point.

But three other projects are scheduled to go online by the end of this year, two others in 2019 (including Cameron) and more coming in 2020.

There were fears China would impose a 25 percent tariff on LNG in the U.S., so the 10 percent levy produced sighs of relief in some quarters.

However, the political rhetoric continued this week as a senior Chinese official said trade talks with the U.S. are difficult because Washington is putting “a knife to China’s neck.”

“We’ll have to see how long these tariffs stay in place,” Hong said. “If it’s really just a negotiating tactic, maybe the impact will be a little less. But the longer this conflicts drags out, I think the impact will be bigger.”

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